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Palm Beach State College Registration Process Analysis

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When I analyzed on how the Palm Beach State College registration process was being used by students and to try to reengineer the process, I realized that technology is the main focus of the registration process. Technology and job design has been incorporated into the registration process. There are numerous steps in the design of the registration process that need to be followed step by step. However, I think that there is one step in the registration process that can be added to help a current student, like me, can register for course in the Bachelors of Applied Science degree program.
Currently, automation and robotics has replaced the human to human contact for the students to register for college courses. The Palm Beach State College Website …show more content…

The outline shows the sequences of the courses required after the student has earned the “Associate of Arts plus the general education courses, upper division common core courses, concentration area courses, area electives, and capstone course (http://palmbeachstate.edu).” The outline would be similar to a goal setting, as stated by Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn, and Osborn (2014), “goal setting is the process of developing, negotiating, and formalizing the targets or objectives that a person is responsible for accomplishing (p. 112).” My degree goal is a formula of college courses that needs to be accomplished in a specific order. If I do not have the printed document course outline in front of me or have the Bachelor of Applied Science Website link open on my computer, I will not know the next course that I would have to register for the upcoming semester. I think that on the Palm Beach State College Website for “Search for Classes,” there should be section for the student to click on the choice of the college degree the student is seeking. The college does offer choices to the student to search for a course by “term, session, campus, course title, course ID/number, the instructor name, days of the week, the start time and end time for the class, alternative instructional method, and subject area (http://palmbeachstate.edu).” If there was a section below the “subject area,” maybe it can be identified as degree seeking area, then the sequence of the courses will come up for student to see which course would be the required to register for the upcoming semester. This would be the only area that I see that would be necessary, and at this time, I do not see any area that should be

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